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IRGC university warns Rouhani administration about foreign policy

Imam Hussein University, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has warned officials in the Rouhani administration about having a "simplistic" view in its negotiations with the United States.
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Iran's Revolutionary guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari speaks during a conference to mark the martyrs of terrorism in Tehran September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY PROFILE) - RTR2QUXD
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Imam Hussein University, which is affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has issued two separate public statements in a week warning officials in Hassan Rouhani's administration about its foreign policy and the nuclear negotiations. The statements came shortly after a public visit by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader who addressed the college in front of some of the IRGC’s top commanders.

The June 1 letter signed by the school's “professors, students and staff” used the occasion of anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to review his last message about foreign policy to draw parallels in dealing with “world powers,” specifically, the United States.

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